Improvement in vests



ZEOHARIAH OBER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN VESTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,903, dated April 23, 1572.

To allpersons to whom thcseprcsents may come:

Be it known that I, ZECHARIAH OBER, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful invention havin g reference to Waiscoats orVest-s 5 and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, of Which- Figure l is an outside View, and Fig. 2 an inner-side view of a waistcoat provided with my invention.

The waistcoat I construct with a pocket to receive a shirt-bosom or the representation of such, the said pocket being open in the front as a vest usually is to show the shirt-bosom; and I combine with the vest and arrange at the upper part of the said pocket a cravatbow. I also make the vest closed in front below the bosom-pocket, and to open and butt0n somewhat aside of such pocket. The neckband of the vest is designed to represent a cravat, part of the said neck-band being sepaarate from the body of the vest, and serving as a iiy to cover the upper part of the overlap ofthe body, such ,iiy having a button-hole inl it near its end. The said neckband I also provide with a series of buttons on its inner side to enable a shirt-collar to be buttoned upon them, and thereby to be connected with the neck-band made in resemblance to a cravat. The back portion of the vest may be constructed with one or more pockets or receptacles extended laterally in it, their purpose being to hold collars. The vest so made is specially made for travelers use. There may be be putin the bosom-pocket a pack or series of the shirt-besoins, each as it may become soiled being removed from the pack or series. So when a shirt-collar :may be soiled it may be unbnttoned from the vest and a fresh collar may be extracted from a back pocket and substituted for the soiled collar. The combined vest, shirt-bosom, and neck-band, and the cravat and bow are to be applied to or removable together from the person. The convenience and advantages of the bosomed, collared, and cravated vest will be found to be very great, especially to travelers, workmen, or others.

In the drawing, A and B denote the two parts of the vest-front, the part A being formed so as to extend across the body of the wea-rer in opposite directions from thc middle of the front thereof. The part A is designed to lap over and button on the portion B, a series of button-holes, t t a, being arranged in the part Ain manner as shown, to receive a set of buttons, b b b, arranged on the portion B in manner as represented. Side pockets c'c and a watch-pocket may be formed in the portion A, as in common vests, and such portions may have arow of buttons, d d d d, iixed to the middle of its front; and, thus formed, will have the appearance of being made in two parts, buttoned together at the front and lbelow the opening for displaying the shirt-bosom. The pocket 'for holding the shirt-bosom or pack of bosoms is exhibited at O. It has its central portion removed in front, as shown at e, in or der to expose the bosom. The fabric extends across its rear to support the bosoms, and has a vertical opening, constituting a mouth, f, through which the said bosoms are introduced into such pocket. The mouth may have buttons and button-holes, as shown at g g; or it` may be provided with other suitable means for closing it. The back portion lt of the bosom-pocket may have eyelet-holes made in it, as shown ati i, to receive strings lc for fastening the bosom or bosoms in place in the pocket, such strings going through a similar series of holes made in each of the bosoms, as shown at l, in Fig. 3, which represents one of the shirtfronts or bosoms. The two front portions A B, like those of a common vest or waistcoat, are to be connected by a back, D, which may be provided with one or more collar-pockets, arranged in it as shown at m m on, each being open at one or both ends, or otherwise furnished with a mouth b y which a collar may be introduced into or removed from such pocket as occasion may require. Furthermore, the neck-band E of the vest I make as a standing neck-band, to extend from the middle of the upper part of the front opening ofthe bosompocket, and be fastened to the back D, and the front portions A B, except to that part of the portion B which is overlapped by the upper part of the portion A, when the neck part of such portion A is buttoned to the portion B. The unattached part u of the neck-band I form as shown, and provide with a button-hole, o, to button upon a button, 10, fixed on the portion A, nextto and under a cravat-bow, G, fastencd centrally to the neck-band, and disposed as shown. I arrange upon and liX to the inner side of the collar E a series of buttons, r 1' fr, to enable a short collar, H, to be connected to the collar E by being bnttoned to it, the said collar E thus becoming, if made of silk or a material contrasting with that of which the vest is made, an imitation cravat.

I claim as my invention the following:

1. A vest, made with the pocket C open infront, as set forth, and arranged as described to receive and hold one or more shirt-bosoins.

2. I also claim the vest or Waistcoat, made with a shirt-bosom pocket, C, open in front, and arranged in the front part A, constructed to button With B, as shown and described.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW. 

